[comp.mail.mh] How do you use .forward/slocal?

eo@ansa.co.UK (Ed Oskiewicz) (09/19/90)

Hello all,

Another dumb beginners question (I hope). I am running a SPARCstation 1 with
SunOs 4.03 and mh6.7. As I was about to go off on holiday for a couple of
weeks I thought I'd try to get my incoming mail pre-digested while I was away
and have had zero success!

In my home directory I put a .forward with the following contents:

"|/usr/local/lib/mh/slocal -user eo"

which is where slocal lives and where eo is my username on unix (the
protection is 644). I have not touched /usr/lib/aliases. To keep life simple I
even reduced ~/.maildelivery to the following line:

* - > ? /home/users/eo/Mail/VacMail

I also tried default instead of * and touching VacMail to force it to exist, I
tried protections of 600 and 644 on .maildelivery and NOTHING happens at all -
mail comes in and stays in my mailbox. The last time I tried to get this going
(last christmas, hpux and mh6.5) I had similar (lack of) success. Could
someone please tell me where I'm going wrong.

Ed Oskiewicz

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